How would you feel if someone said you'd be really attractive if you lost weight?

[Travis B]

Say someone told you that you'd be really good-looking if you lost some weight. Assume they meant this sincerely and weren't intending to give you a backhanded compliment. How would you feel?

If you're not overweight, pretend for the purpose of this question that you are.

[Waltzinblack]

Well I weigh about 9 stone, so I physically can't lose any weight without becoming anorexic. However if I was overweight, I'd be flattered - and it would give me a reason to lose some weight.

[Deleted]

Say someone told you that you'd be really good-looking if you lost some weight. Assume they meant this sincerely and weren't intending to give you a backhanded compliment. How would you feel?

I'd say, I know. Give me 4-5 more months. I already lost 40 kg.

I recently saw a girl where I thought, man she's cute, if only she'd lose weight. Some people will say "it's none of your business", but I think the point is, she'd be happier that way.

[Fonduset]

My Grandma and Aunty say that to me all the time...

[Glaziola]

I would accept it as an compliment because I got a few kilos I should lose.

[pseudoJ]

The thing with losing weight is that you can't really convince anyone to do it. That person simply needs to wake up and feel like that day is the day to do something about it.
Happened to me -- I lowered my weight by some 30 kg. Now I was struggling with exercising for a while... again one day I found a proper motivation since I realised that even though I do feel better, I need a bit more to be satisfied with my self image in order to have a reasonable self-confidence. But that's just me -- I tend to overly compare myself with other people and unfortunately I often put myself against people far better than me in whatever area.

So to answer the question -- depends on who would be the one telling me. I wouldn't get offended for sure -- fat people know they are fat, the less mentally stable ones just don't want to hear it -- I'd just ignore it if it didn't come from the right person.

Personally for me the motivation to lose weight was that I need to socialise more with people and by being overweight I exclude myself from a lot of sport/social activities. Thus one they I woke up and went to buy a kitchen scale and downloaded an app for tracking calorie intake.

[Machismo]

I wouldn't care at all. If a person is overweight, he should know it. One would hope that any compliment received (or criticism) is already known by the person receiving it. If a compliment or criticism comes as a surprise to a person, that means they have not taken the time to examine themselves.

[Sliske]

Depends how fat you are.

[Deleted]

depends on who it comes from.

if it comes from like your mom or similar family member i probably wouldn't put much stock in it, they also tell me i look nice in clothes that would never attract a date.
if i am seriously overweight it would kinda be stating the obvious.
if it came from a doctor i would probably consider it a joke meant to motivate me to lose weight.
if i heard it from a girlfriend it would heavily depend on the context.
if i heard it more then once from a date i might start to think about it, especially if those dates regularly didn't have followups.

[Deleted]

Luckily I've always taken good care of my physique, so no idea.

But if it happens to you, might use it as motivation?

[Deleted]

I would not care much. I know how my body looks like. It's like telling someone "Hey you could make more money by getting a better job." "Oh really?" "Why well thank you, I had no idea!" stating the obvious

[Machismo]

Luckily I've always taken good care of my physique, so no idea.

But if it happens to you, might use it as motivation?

That's what you think, that's not what you were told.

[Ghostpanther]

Well, have never been overweight, so my position would be like it would be for any other type compliment like that. I would thank them and keep doing what I had been doing unless I felt their point was valuable and correct. What others think I should do, is of little importance actually. But I am not totally closed mind to valid suggestions.

[Deleted]

Probably ignore them, i'm a healthy weight already

[Terridon]

Eh.
Just take a compliment as a compliment. Life is too short to try to analyze the bad sides of everything.

[Dsonsion]

Slightly insulted, as I'm barely above the minimum acceptable weight for my height.

[Deleted]

Determined to put on more weight, just to spite them.

[Deleted]

Unless they acted like a cunt about it I'd propably thank them for the notion. It's easier to be appreciative when most strangers avoid me like the plague, eh. Tall and wide along with Rasputin eyes does that.

[Vargur]

I'd start losing weight.

[Sykol]

I'd feel like losing weight.